The total population of Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty reached more than 26 million, and if the population of the capital was removed from Tianfu, then the total population of Zhejiang Province was the first province of the Ming Dynasty.

With a population of 26 million, this represents a huge consumer market in the region.

The high degree of agriculture and economic environment, as well as the historical development, is still the heavy tax area of the Ming Dynasty, more than the sum of many provinces, and the tax revenue of the entire seven western provinces is not as good as one-fifth of the Zhejiang provinces.

Like a huge bottomless pit, while the imperial court tried to move the population out, Zhejiang Province was endlessly absorbing the surrounding population, while Jiangxi Province, whose population grew from 9 million to more than 12 million in the past few decades.

With Zhu Zhanji's inspection, the personnel came from many departments, including the Research Department.

"The industrialized environment and the frequent changes in work are actually very unfavorable to married women, on the one hand, the increase in the number of children in the family, and on the other hand, the pressure of the family economy, forcing many children to be unable to study smoothly and join the factory very early."

"Although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has formulated a lot of plans very early, but it does not seem to be able to take into account the comprehensiveness at present, as the Daming Industrial Bureau has entered the bottleneck of development, and the private commercial banks on the contrary have developed rapidly, and the poorest families like to send their children to work outside, which is already the choice of most people."

"The birth of the youngest child means that the eldest child must go out to work, even families with high incomes are eager to let their children go out to work, the coal mining industry is not included in the Daming Industrial Bureau, and the wages of the miner industry are high, and the children of the miners' families can earn a lot of money in the mine."

"According to research, the local miners can earn one yuan and eight dimes a month, while his twelve-year-old son, who works as a coal tower in the mines, earns almost one yuan a month.

"The local government can't stop it, because without their children, the miners under the mine owner will be very dissatisfied, very angry, and will think that the mine owner is not emotional, so in order to appease the miners under him, the mine owner also needs more manpower, so there are many teenagers in the mining area, mainly from the miner's family."

"There are even children under the age of 10 whose parents lie and exaggerate their age in order to make them lie and exaggerate their age, because it is immoral in the local public opinion and the hearts of the parties to prevent the children from joining the work and earning money."

Ningbo Mansion.

Yin County.

Vantone Garment Factory.

The workers put the cut pieces of cloth in place, and then turn the handle with their left hand, fix the two pieces of cloth with their right hand, and the needles of the tailoring machine work up and down.

They had to know how to operate the machine, and much more, but the wages in the garment factories were not low, and in order to make up for the lack of skilled workers, the garment factories recruited a large number of apprentices.

Qualified tailors are paid up to one dollar and seven dimes per month, and apprentices are paid one yuan per month.

The traditional agricultural environment of less than 10 acres per household and the low price of grain made it impossible for farmers to catch up with the level of economic development by relying on agricultural production capacity, and the bankruptcy of small workshops eventually made a large number of local people join the factory.

Many of the landlord class were transformed into factories and set up factories.

People know the benefits of starting a factory, but the funds for starting a factory can never reach the point that ordinary people can never reach, and it is only possible by courage and luck, and more people can only bury their heads in hard work.

High labor is a lot of money, not to mention the cost of machines and factories.

A man in his forties led his son to the foreman, pleading with a smile, and the foreman looked at the teenage boy a few times, and the boy had been told by his father at home that he was very honest.

The foreman didn't say much, gave the man a few thin noodles, and made the boy an apprentice very happily.

The man is a porter, and before parting with his son, he asked his son to be obedient and diligent, because of his worries about the unfamiliar environment and his fantasies about the factory in the past, the boy stared at his father nervously.

The boy finally followed the class leader and left, this is where the adults work, and he will be an adult himself in the future.

The team leader found a worker at random, handed the boy to the other party, said who was the baby, and then started with him, the man looked at the boy a few times, and there were not too many words.

Every day there are new people in the factory, most of whom are the children of the workers, and everyone is used to it.

The Ministry of Workers' and People's Unions is already the most famous department in the Ming Dynasty, with public offices from the imperial court to the local government, plus the Tax Department and the Inspection Department, which belong to the "three mountains" on the heads of the factories.

Even if it is a factory of a private trading house, they do not dare to violate the bottom line.

Although "cutting corners" during lunch breaks and mealtimes, the system was generally adhered to.

At noon, he followed the master to the canteen to eat, and the sixteen-year-old Zhao Changhe looked around from time to time, but he didn't see his father.

From the novelty and longing of the first day, it has become numb after only a month.

Day after day, year after year.

Zhao Changhe worked as an apprentice for a year, according to the custom of the factory, to become a regular after two years, the apprenticeship period is three years, his luck came, the grandson inspected Zhejiang Province, and also brought many new regulations.

Among them, the apprenticeship period of the factory is capped at one year, and the rights and interests are guaranteed by the Ministry of Workers' and People's Cooperation.

Although the factory did not prohibit the use of child labor, it raised the threshold for the use of child labor, and also protected the rights and benefits of child labor.

Fortunately, the Wantong Garment Factory became a list of factories inspected by Taisun.

Therefore, the factory owner immediately implemented the new regulations.

Several staff members quickly took notes.

"According to research at the Vantone Garment Factory, there are 500 children from poor families, mainly from surrounding villages and towns, and these children range in age from seven or eight to teenagers."

"There are six hours of working hours, including meal time, and one hour is used for eating. The children's hands were generally deformed, they were stunted, and despite the fact that the best teachers were assigned to teach the children each evening, as originally planned, the children were generally stunted to progress. ”

"The Vantone Garment Factory is a generally ethical factory, and there are many more black factories that recruit many black child laborers, children from vassal states, as well as domestic Goryeo and other domestic helpers."

"In order not to be discovered, the factory did not allow the children to leave the factory, and even chained them, except for the girls who were slightly looser, but if they thought the girls were suspected of escaping, the factory owner would also lock their ankles, and then use a long iron chain to lock their hips, whether it was to eat or drink, or to go to the hut, someone would lead the chain."

"The inhuman environment, their parents did not object, but chose to send their children to the factory, because only these illegal factories can take in their children and let their children have a cheap payment."

"According to the conclusion of the survey, the biggest difficulty in punishing violations of the employment system and the system of protecting the rights and interests of workers and people is not the factory owners, but the main demand of the people."

"The existence of most black-hearted factories is also welcomed by foreign workers such as Korean maids, and the banning of these factories will not benefit the local government, but will be considered immoral by the common people."

"On the whole, most of the local officials chose to ignore it, not only to gain the approval of local public opinion, but also to satisfy the factory owners and the people, so if the imperial court wants to ban these factories strongly, it will cause the people to be disgusted."

Zhu Zhanji flipped through the report, and in the past few months, his excitement has become more and more calm from the beginning, and he couldn't help sighing: "It's not easy to govern the country!" ”

Yang Pu heard the exclamation of the grandson and showed a relieved smile.

His Royal Highness Taisun can have today's insights, which shows that His Royal Highness Taisun has learned more knowledge and understood more truths than before leaving the capital, which is a good thing for the country.

"Governing the country is not an easy thing, from the political, economic, cultural and other aspects need to be considered, but also to face a variety of complex interests and contradictions, it is really rare for Taisun to have today's understanding."

Yang Pu said with a smile.

When Zhu Zhanji heard his master's teachings, he couldn't help but say: "This national event is really indescribable. ”

Zhu Zhanji thought of what he had seen and heard some time ago.

The measures taken by the Father's Ministry of Workers' and People's Unions to protect the rights and interests of the workers and prohibit the use of foreign workers in the factories were all for the common people, but in reality, there were a lot of violations of the law in the local area, and the imperial court was not able to intervene.

From books alone, Zhu Zhanji thinks that he can never understand it, and only when he sees the phenomenon that occurs can he understand the words described.

The situation in a Zhejiang province is so complicated, so with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji is no longer like when he was in the capital, he easily thinks that he only needs to follow the principles in the books to do a good job.

I also understand my father, who is omnipotent in his eyes, but he often laments that governing the country is a university question, and it is difficult for people to learn all of it in their lives.

However, the young Zhu Zhanji is confident.

He thinks that he is very young, as long as he tries his best not to make mistakes, he can live up to the expectations of his grandfather and father, and he will not do worse than his father in the Ming Dynasty.

Just as the children of the workers hope to surpass their fathers, the young Zhu Zhanji also hopes to surpass their fathers.

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back then.

There was a businessman named Zhang Qi, who used the means of instigating local wars to obtain huge profits and became the largest cotton merchant in the Western Regions.

In contrast to the unprecedented success of the stock banks in Korea and the multiplication of the capital of the merchants, the United Jong Trading House proposed the model of the Ten Thousand Golden Accounts, which attracted many merchants.

Hezhong Commercial Bank has adopted the model of Heji Commercial Bank, absorbing people's investment over the years, and building one comprehensive commercial building after another in Daming City, with rich annual turnover and huge cash flow, it has become a pivotal large business group.

In the process of becoming more and more sound in the Ming Law, the scale of these business groups of Hezhong Commercial Bank is getting bigger and bigger.

The elderly Zhang Qi came to Zhejiang in person, saw the economic level of Zhejiang, and couldn't help but sigh, even if the Western Regions Province is developing rapidly, it is still far away from Zhejiang Province.

Hezhong Commercial Bank proposed to buy land and open commercial buildings in all cities in Daming, establish a commercial system all over the world, and become the largest trade terminal, surpassing the terminal trade system of Daming Industry Bureau in one fell swoop.

If it were an ordinary firm, the businessmen would not be so excited, but the success of the United Firm over the years has proved that the slogan of the United Firm is not false.

The businessmen gave high approval to the business ideas put forward by the big proprietor Wang Ren, so people were very interested in joining the Wanjin Horde.

"The Wanjin Horde model is not my own start, and there is a precedent for success."

At the businessman exchange meeting, Wang Ren said in public, and people were listening to his speech.

The tall buildings of the building.

The new carpet laid on the whole floor, the exquisite decoration, looks magnificent, everyone who participates has a certain capital, and on the occasion here, it looks gentle and polite, and the humble gentleman is general.

The staff skillfully used the steam engine to go up and down the stairs to bring sumptuous food and expensive liquor to the merchants.

"At the beginning, Emperor Taizu founded the Kaizhong Law, and the mainland merchants transported grain to Shaanxi and other border areas, and they recruited people to farm locally to reduce the burden on the imperial court, and they could also obtain profits, and put forward the Wanjin Tent model, where everyone worked together to do things, and the money earned was shared through shares."

"Now Hop Kee Commercial Bank will also be the same, from the original small-scale IPO to a public offering, any interested comrades can join the United People, comrades work together to make the United States bigger and stronger, and finally get the profits they want."

"And the stock bank in Korea proves the success and advantages of this model, and I am convinced that the future of the United Commercial Bank will become the leading business group of the Ming Dynasty through the Wanjin account model."

Wang Ren almost said more than the heji.

Wang Ren admits the size advantage of the Daming Industrial Bureau, but the Daming Industrial Bureau has limitations, and his positioning is no longer the Daming Industrial Bureau, but surpasses Heji Commercial Bank, the strongest opponent for many years.

But he couldn't help it, he didn't want to make a name for himself in the super-standard chamber of commerce that he had organized with all his might on such an important occasion.

Hezhong Commercial Bank is a fat sheep recognized by merchants.

In recent years, there has been the successful experience of the Korean Stock Bank, and the businessmen recognized Wang Ren's ability, so they took out funds to join the United Commercial Bank's Ten Thousand Gold Account.

They enjoy the right to dividends and do not participate in the management.

Overnight, Hezhong absorbed millions of dollars in funds, real cash.

There's nothing faster in the world to make money than this.

Encouraged by the United People, He Ji would not let the United People surpass him, and soon Zhang Bo also imitated the Ten Thousand Golden Horde, which was also a great success, and obtained more than six million funds overnight.

The wealth developed by the Ming Dynasty through the productive forces over the years has officially circulated in the business district, and its scale is staggering.

The Daming Bureau of Industry is huge.

But the coal mining industry has been split, the railways have also been split, more and more are split, and seeking stability is the core of the Daming Industrial Bureau, which is related to the livelihood of millions of workers, and no one dares to innovate easily.

Under the competition between the two leaders of Hezhong and Heji, the fierce development trend has surpassed many industries in Daming Gonggong.

Textile industry, garment industry, weaving industry, etc., the development of private commercial banks is faster than that of the Daming Industrial Bureau, and many traditional factories of the Daming Industrial Bureau have been unable to get orders, and can only rely on internal orders to barely maintain.

Gao Zhen, the chief treasurer of the Daming Industry Bureau, officially proposed to the imperial court to open a series of factories such as textile factories, weaving factories, and garment factories in Goryeo, hoping to restore the competitiveness of the Daming Industry Bureau in these industries with the help of Goryeo's cheap labor.

A number of reports from the Research Division were also put on the table of Zhu Gaochi.

According to the detailed information, Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but sigh that this is why later modern Western sociologists first recognized the advantages of capital, and then proposed that the egoism caused by capital brought harm to society.

Why do you keep staring at the country?

Zhu Gaochi couldn't help frowning.

The people in China are becoming more and more reluctant to leave their hometowns, and capital has begun to flow back.

The richer the Ming is, the more reluctant people are to leave.

Compared with Portugal and Spain, the footsteps of the Ming people are still stuck in Nanyang, it seems that it is not possible to count on private capital, capital is profit-seeking, and it must be where to go where to get rich.

In the end, administrative means are still needed, in this case, Zhu Gaochi is actually reluctant, because there will be more complaints from the people.

Zhu Gaochi set his sights on the cabinet.

The royal family must not be the focus of contradictions.

(End of chapter)